I recently got a VA-503+ mother board, i think made by FIC, and am having a few problems with it. There are MANY jumper settings, not sure what some of them do. I have an AMD K6-2 350 processor in it. I got it to boot once, i was then adjusting the fsb frequency, got distracted had to leave the board with a few jumpers off to go do something. When i returned, i thought i had all the jumpers back in, and tried booting the board. I did forget to replace a jumper, its the CLK4 jumper. I cannot find anywhere on the board what this jumper does. I have tried doing research on the board to see what it does, and have come up with nothing. Now, after trying to boot without that jumper, i get nothing. No beeps, no video, nothing. I have tried about every jumper setting i can think of, cannot get it togo.
As for the jumpers on the board there are
FREQ1, FREQ2, FREQ3 == These set the P55C M2/K6. not sure what this is, settings anywhere from "2X" to "5.5X" (its currently set at "3.5X")
SDRAM1, == sets memory frequency, AGP or CPU are options (currently set at "CPU")
SDRAM2, SDRAM3 == sets system frequency, from "2X" to "3.5X" (currently set at "3.5X")
SRAM == sets for "intel burst" or "linear burst" (currently set at "intel burst")
CLK1, CLK2, CLK3 == set fsb speed, anywhere from "66.5M" to "124M" (currently set at "100M")
CLK4 == this is the one i dont know what it does, no labeling on the board for it (currently set on "2-3")
Then there is the core voltage jumpers, anywhere from 2.0V to 3.2V, (currently set at "2.2V")
I have tired 66Mhz SIMM ram, 66Mhz DIMM ram, 133Mhz DIMM ram, all PCI slots, and the AGP slot for video cards, and cannot get a peep out of it. The processor does start to get warm after being on, and there is NO bios battery installed. I am booting with no HDD or FDD's connected, and no MOUSE or Keyboard. It was this exact way the first time i tried it and it worked, but now nothing
Does it seem as if i have the settings correct and the board is toast from trying to boot with no CLK4 jumper in? Or do i have a setting wrong? Is the BIOS chip corrupted? Should i try to get a flash, and try to flash with no video?
Sorry for the long post, i would just like to try to get this machine up and running. Thanks in advance!!!
Blimpie
As for the jumpers on the board there are
FREQ1, FREQ2, FREQ3 == These set the P55C M2/K6. not sure what this is, settings anywhere from "2X" to "5.5X" (its currently set at "3.5X")
SDRAM1, == sets memory frequency, AGP or CPU are options (currently set at "CPU")
SDRAM2, SDRAM3 == sets system frequency, from "2X" to "3.5X" (currently set at "3.5X")
SRAM == sets for "intel burst" or "linear burst" (currently set at "intel burst")
CLK1, CLK2, CLK3 == set fsb speed, anywhere from "66.5M" to "124M" (currently set at "100M")
CLK4 == this is the one i dont know what it does, no labeling on the board for it (currently set on "2-3")
Then there is the core voltage jumpers, anywhere from 2.0V to 3.2V, (currently set at "2.2V")
I have tired 66Mhz SIMM ram, 66Mhz DIMM ram, 133Mhz DIMM ram, all PCI slots, and the AGP slot for video cards, and cannot get a peep out of it. The processor does start to get warm after being on, and there is NO bios battery installed. I am booting with no HDD or FDD's connected, and no MOUSE or Keyboard. It was this exact way the first time i tried it and it worked, but now nothing
Does it seem as if i have the settings correct and the board is toast from trying to boot with no CLK4 jumper in? Or do i have a setting wrong? Is the BIOS chip corrupted? Should i try to get a flash, and try to flash with no video?
Sorry for the long post, i would just like to try to get this machine up and running. Thanks in advance!!!
Blimpie